Bryan Fischer (dolt) tweeted this evening:
Today was Pearl Harbor. Tomorrow we begin planning for Normandy.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 7, 2012
Really, Bryan? Really?
First off — Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack against a country at peace. The “war” between the GOP and the Dems (or the Forces of Good White Christian Americans vs Evil Multi-Culti Marxist Atheist Traitors, if you like) has been blazing for some time. And while I realize that you somehow thought (at least you tweeted about it madly) that Romney was going to win over 300 ECV and be in the high 50s of the popular vote, an Obama (et al.) victory is hardly a Pearl Harbor.
Unless you mean that the GOP assumed it was impregnable, parked all its battleships in neat rows, and stupidly left itself open to being taken out for its hubris.
Secondly — maybe you’re being subtle and historical in your note, observing that the US, while engaging with Japan in WWII, made the European Theater is main initial operation (though there were a few important invasions before Normandy, like North Africa and Italy).
But, still, your tweet sort of comes across as, “We got beat by these guys, so now we’re going to start planning our attack on these different guys over here.”
At any rate, it’s reassuring to know that some things never change, and that, having been rejected by a slender majority of the American people (spread out across a wide enough geography to represent a significant portion of the electoral college), your next thought is to think in terms of armed conflict, of having been betrayed and treacherously attacked, and how you can regroup and unleash your own mighty war engines against your implacable enemies. No namby-pamby “Let’s see how we can run this country together and deal with the problems we are all facing” for you, Bryan. Instead, it’s Cry Havoc, and You Realize, This Means War, and Evil Liberals Delenda Est.
Good to know things are back to business as usual.
Wait. Did you just seriously suggest that Fischer might be capable of subtlety? That wasn’t sarcasm?
Well, I like to think the best of people @Avo.
Hmmm. The US ignored warnings from British intelligence that the Japanese were asking the Germans to get their spies to provide intelligence. These spies were actually double agents, with MI6 playing a subtle game against the Abwehr- unfortunately Hoover insisted that double agents were only good for catching other spies, and almost jeapodised the whole plan.
Likewise, the US Navy initially refused to us a convoy system, despite repeated warnings from the Admiralty, and lost a disproportionate amount of cargo until they finally took note.
Once the US forces landed in North Africa, they failed to heed the lessons that the British and Free French had learned in combat, instead, like their fathers 25 years earlier learnt the hard way, dismissing those who had spent 3 years learning how to fight the Germans.
So, are you saying the GOP is unable to learn from Europeans, dismissing what they have to say as unAmerican, prefering brute force, and suffering losses until experience shows the Europeans were right all along? 😉 Surely not!
Now there’s a war metaphor I can support, @LH.